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Amos sees the Lord standing with a plumb line, and the LORD says he is setting a plumb line in the midst of Israel. The message is that he will “never again pass by them,” and it includes the downfall of high places and sanctuaries. See Amos 7:7–9.
7Thus he showed me: and, behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand.
8Yahweh said to me, Amos, what see you? I said, A plumb-line. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more;
9and the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.